Temporal, OpenAI, and the Future of Agentic AI
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OpenAI runs a Temporal-backed durable orchestration framework that powers agent workflows, infrastructure control planes, data pipelines, and billing processes at production scale, claiming Temporal survives massive loads; Temporal usage grows 60x in 2025 (20x in Q2 then 3x more in H2) while ChatGPT serves 900 million weekly actives and Image Gen produces ~1 billion images/week. The Agents SDK separates harness from compute, enables sandbox orchestration and native Codex-style tools, and the durable system consistently completes long‑running, multi‑step agent tasks.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and OpenAI's mission
- 1:07Scale of OpenAI products
- 2:34Evolution of product workflows
- 3:36Agentic workflows and durability
- 4:37Temporal use cases at OpenAI
- 6:43Temporal adoption and growth
- 7:44Collaboration with Temporal team
- 8:26Future of agentic products
- 9:48OpenAI Agents SDK improvements
- 11:51Agents SDK architecture changes
- 12:53Durable orchestration in agent systems
- 13:35Future collaboration and closing
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